St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-03
A NOVEL BOOM.
Sioux City in a Whirl Of Excitement
and Expectation.
1T WILL BE A BIG SHOW
The Corn Palace and Illumination, II Is
Claimed, Will Surpass st. Paurs
Carnival Efforts.
Special to the Globe,


SIOUX CITY, To-, Oct. 1.-The great
produced a veritable corn craze here.
1t so far Surpasses expectation, III
beauty and attraction, that it has thrown
the city into frenzy of delight. About
every person you meet is wearing
corn husk necktie, corn breastpin-or
some such emblem of the wOrshipful
plant-or a gOld-tinted medal, bearing
the impress of the palace, bangles at his
breast and forms part of his tOggery,
to express his zeal for King Corn and
his palace.
The stores and business streets are
being decorated with it. It's corn
here. corn there, corn everywhere
corn of every color and of immense
size, some ears being fourteen inches
long. There never before was such a
display of corn, and to know its diver
Sity OF color and use in decorative art,
you must see the corn palace. This mod
ern wonder, great in dimensions, grand
In design and magnificent in decoration,
is certainly unique creation, uniting
art and huSbandry in enchanting beauty.
1t covers $4,000 square feet of ground,
and its main tower, situated in the CEN
ter of the structure and standing 100
feet high. is fianked Oh all sides by tur-
rets, minarets and cupolaS, of proper
tons in harmony with the symmetry of
the whole. And the whole exterior of
the building is artiStically matched and
yeneered with corn and other cereals
in designs and figures like embroidery,
and with such skill in the arrangement
OF coIors as to produce the
most pleasing effect and make
it a marvel of beauty, charmingly
grotesque and magnifcently grand
a theme for poets, and worthy of King
Corn, the geniuS-loci of Sioux City,
under whose patronage She is rapidly
becoming the greatest pork and beef
packing center, and destined to become
the
LARGEST CITY ON THE MISSOURI RIVER.
It's the madness of conceit to attempt
description of the interior of this magI-
cal creation, chiefly the work of women
-enchantreSSeS, we might call them.
More beautiful than the garden of
Armida when Rinaldo was detained en-
chanted; a museum of rustic art, repre-
senting the flora of the country, wrought
into thousand forms and figures of
beauty, with such artistic skill in the
blending of colOrs and in every detail of
esthetic art as only the most highly
cultured women are capable GIFTS
reality surprising fancy; bewildering
maze of enhancing beauty; scene of en-
chantment of which pen can give no con-
ceptiOn, and even the camera obScura. in
most skillful hands, must give but an
imperfect picture. To the lover of
rustic art it is worth crossing the CONT
nent on foot to get peep at it. Unlike
most creations that are lovely, it was
not born to die quickly. Standing as a
nrn fn hor i1,no II orf-n
prise and thrift, it is to be permanent
institution of Sioux City, and, like
perennial plant, is expected to flourish
and blossom with increasing beauty
each succeeding year, till her dream of
100000 population is realized. So it's
no wonder the city is intoxicated with
joy, and that people are already throng-
ing round the gorgeous spectacle with
admiring gaze. The EXPLANATIONS of
wonder and delight by men, as well as
women and children, are truely anus
ing. An honest granger, who for a time
seemed entranced with its beauty,
after he recovered his speech, exclaimed:
Its the grandest thing on arth; never
afOre was equaIed." Without gold or
silver or precious stones in its adorn-
ment to recall the ~
SPLENDOR OF THE PALACES OF HISTORY.
of Nineveh, Babylon and Palmira: in
its luStrouS cOyey gilmore colors than the
prism of rainbow. he saw jewels more
charming to his eye and suggestive of
better houghtS-jewels that feed hun
ger and support life, that secure the
happy home Oh the prairie, where peace
and plenty dwell and contentment
reigns supreme; jewels worth more
than all the glittering diamonds and
precious stones of lapidary. Though
the palace is an exposition in itSelf-a
sort of birds-eye view of the agricult-
ural resources of Sioux City's great ter
ritOry-the exposition will be held
within it. When stocked with exhibits
from Dakota, Nebraska. Southern Min
nesOta and Western Iowa it will be
veritable cornucOpia.
During the NIGHTS of the jubilee the
business part of the city is to
be Illuminated with 1000 gas jets, as st.
Paul was during the ice palace carnival.
So, with its military paradeS and pro-
cessions, representing the industries of
the city, it will certainly be the grand
est affair that has ever occurred in the
Northwest, and it is expected to draw
not less than 100000 strangers here dur
ing the Corn Palace Harvest Jubilee
festival, as it is called, to see the big
show. If ever people had a genius for
city building this people has. 1t would
take columns to describe what is going
on here now in the way of improve
ments, but / must refer to the great
Missouri river bridge. the two immense
packing houses, the Grand opera house,
the cable car, street car and motor
lines. While Sioux City is ambitious,
and in the main composed of the right
kind of people to push forward and
make great city, it will never become
a st. Paul. 1t lacks the resources and
is handicapped by being in a prohibit
ton state.